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Rh Police, how recruited in Loudon, 154, note

Pompey, 239, note 1

Population, increase of, difficult to predict, 67, 68 ; methods to stint may be adopted, 130

Prayer, belief in, modified, 269-271

Protection likely to be adopted by the higher races, 128-130

Protestantism copied Catholicism, 24

Protestants, early outrages by, 200

Prussia a first-rate power, 110

Prussian army, size of, in 1740, 95, note 1

Ptolemais as described by Synesius, 182

Puritans favour Church interference, 196 ; awake to repress incontinence, 198 ; Puritan superstition, 268 ; the Puritan household, 275, 276

silenced, 213

Reformation, the work of men under forty, 325

Reichshoffen, French cuirassiers at, 139

Rémusat, De, on Juuius, 319

Renaissance, the, excited great hopes, 340

Reuchlin attacked, 213

Revolution, French, the work of men under forty, 325 ; excited great hopes, 340

Revolutions likely to be less violent, 322, 329

Richelieu a dictator, 326

Rochambeau powerfully assists the Americans, 115

Rogers, Professor, on condition of working-class anciently, 127

Roland, Mdme., marriage of, 241, 242 Roman Empire under Trajan, 87, 88 ; causes of its decline, 88, 90 ; despondency attending its break-up, 321

Roman law of marriage, 236

Ross of Bladensburg beats American militia, 115

Rothschild smuggles gold, 184, note

Rousseau predicts Revolution, 5 ; unlike Voltaire, 150 ; his treatment of his children reprobated, 229 ; superstitious experiment by, 268, note 3

Rowe, 307

Russia and Turkestan, 43, 44 ; effects of conquest by, in Turkey in Asia, 63 ; capable of supporting a large population, 105 ; strong for aggression, 110 ; has aims on Persia, 111 ; gained by defeat in Crimea, 141 ; is oppressing Jews and Germans, 285 ; is largely indebted to foreigners, 285 ; Russian army, size of, in 1740, 95 note 1

taught in Oxford, 286

Saint invents sewing-machine, 102 note 1

St. Aignan, 241.

St. Simon's view of marriage, 241, and note 1

Salvation Army, 156

Sand's (G.) views on marriage, 243-245

Sanguin, 241

San Sebastian, surrender of, 139 ; atrocities at, 140, note

Saragossa, defences of, their character, 120, 121

Sardou, 167

Science not reconcilable with faith, 288-290 ; is ceasing to impress the imagination, 290-292

Scotland, increase of population in, 75

Scotchmen frugal, 169

Scott, Sir W., did admirable work, 301 ; yet may be superseded, 302

Senegambia, 35

Sepoy outrages, 82

Sertorius thought of sailing for the Fortunate Isles, 343

Servants, changed relations of, to employers, 256, 257

Sèvres, porcelain of, 107

Sewell on the typical vertebra, 305

Shaftesbury, Lord, legislation by, 154

Shakespeare on the stage, 165 ; his songs, 168 ; his tragedy of Lear, 297

Shelburne, Lord, prediction by, 2

Shelley on the stage, 165 ; ostracised, 286, 302 ; not read in his lifetime, 331

Sheridan's oratory, 313, 314

Shirley on English pedigrees, 71

Shrewsbury, 210

Sidgwick (Prof. H.) on patriotism, 183

Smith, Adam, on mortality, 153, 154

Smith (H. J. S., Prof.) on constructive chemistry, 291 ; on the crowding-out of talent, 331

Smith, 210

Socialism, State, its essential aims in land laws, 20 ; how it may be introduced, 103-105 ; what influences will modify it, 122, 123 ; it may tend to promote health, 321

Socrates charged with impiety, 262

Spain, possessions of, under Philip II., 92, 93 ; praised for policy, 93 ; capable of supporting a large population, 105

Spaniards, greatness of, 93

Stae'l, Auguste de, advised by Napoleon, 286

Stae'l, Mdme. de, why she loved Paris, 149